We had a definite science fiction theme running with this week's Gaming Apps of the Day. Waking Mars saw us journey into the depths of the red planet; Incoboto tasked us with re-igniting an entire galaxy of stars; and Flight Control Rocket gave us hope that no matter where the future takes humanity—whatever great and wonderful things we achieve—there'll always be thankless, high-stress air traffic controller jobs.

And then we featured a match game you play with your own hipster-fied photos, which I guess is sort of futuristic if you close your eyes and picture something else entirely.

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Flight Control was such a simple, enjoyable, universally acclaimed mobile game, it compelled the boss-and I don't mean Totilo, I mean the boss-to write a review of it two years ago. He came back from his safari in the messy backcountry of video game criticism with a nice trophy, too. Me, however, I get to deal with the sequel, a gobbed-up, what-the-hell, coin-operated unhappy meal slid across the fast-food counter of the iTunes App Store. More »